Packing up Tuscany for New York
Week three is over and we are now in the final planning stages for the Tutto Toscana! program …current countdown to the NYC events is less than a week! I can’t believe that the first part of the program in Florence has passed us by… 21 days of prepping for what I know will be […]
Feather Light Vegetable Chips
Our Feathers food and fashion event at the Astor Centor features a lighter side of Made in Italy. Lightness, effervescence, and creativity are reflected in the feather accessories and organic clothing lines featured at the fashion show and naturally in the menu as well. Here is a sneak peek from the finger food menu that […]
P.S. A Small Detail, A Culinary Giant
We are a mere 2 weeks away from the highly anticipated Tutto Toscana! event series to be held in part at the James Beard House in New York City. The menus are in print, recipes are receiving final touches and the event planning team is finally writing their last words. But in all the excitement […]
Not your neighborhood grocer: San Lorenzo Market
After an intense first week, we have smoothly transitioned into week two; NYC is fastly approaching but a few days ago the event management team joined up with Chef Andrea Trapani and his culinary students for a slow, methodical analysis of Florence’s central market, San Lorenzo Mercato Centrale. Background & Layout: Located in one of […]
Blue Pecorino Cheese takes the spotlight at the James Beard Cocktail Party and Brunch!
Event management team member Gina Sabatini is also in the food and wine teams, giving us an insider’s edge to our James Beard menu production progress. She recently came across, firsthand, or rather first-palate, a unique Tuscan blue sheep’s milk cheese that gives Roquefort a run for its money! Fattoria Corzano e Paterno Pecorino Blue […]
Sneak Peek at our JBF menus!
Photographer Pilee Blue Mansfield shares an exclusive glance at a featured item from the James Beard Italian Aperitivo Party on October 22, 2010. Vegetables are marinated in extravirgin olive oil and packed in mini mason jars that event guests can take home. Whether consumed at JBF or at home, this dish is a little reminder, […]
Personal Perspective: The Local Food Scene in Florence
Our JBF team members have wrapped up the first week of event planning in Florence. What’s their take on Florence? Theresa Brazale shares her views on how she’s been eating behind the scenes of TuttoToscana! An Appetite For Adventure As a student of the Apicius International School of Hospitality, we are coming to the end […]
Personal Perspective: Shopping Locally
Our JBF team members have wrapped up the first week of event planning in Florence. What’s their take on Florence? Gina Sabatini shares her views on how TuttoToscana! has effected her shopping, one local product at a time. Before I had even arrived in Florence there were so many expectations and curiosities that I had […]
Turning a Table (wine) Upside Down
One of the TuttoToscana James Beard events offers an extremely unique wine. It’s called Rosa dei Venti, and it comes from the Corte Pavone estate in the Montalcino area. This wine is a sweet wine, the only one in Italy that is made from 100% Sangiovese, the king of Tuscan grapes. We are bringing this […]
Baccalà at the Beard House? Bello!
It’s day two and the students of Apicius International School of Hospitality are busy away planning for their annual Tuscan food and wine themed event, TuttoToscana, which takes place at the James Beard House in New York City, October 22-25. Fortunately for me, I happen to be one of those lucky students! Having signed up […]
What happens when you take Tuscany to NYC?
The following posts will cover Palazzi events at the James Beard Foundation in New York City. Follow us for an exciting 5 weeks of coverage on pre-production in Florence, event staging in NYC, and post-event food reflections. http://www.apicius.it/eng/stories/summer-2010/62/tutto-toscana-join-us-in-new-york-city.html www.jamesbeard.org
Coffee Vs. Tea
From our Italian correspondent in NYC Find what Lorenzo Spagli has to say about coffee drinking culture during his stint in the Big Apple. Thirst is a very strong thing to fight against. People from all over the world, no matter where, drink to cure thirst. That said, many kinds of drinks are available in […]
An Ode to Comfort Food
Having lived in Rome prior to moving to Florence, I find it rather difficult to stray away from some of the “comfort dishes” that I enjoyed throughout my college days. I used to live atop one of Rome’s most renowned trattorie, Da Ivo a Trastevere. There is no fonder and more pathetic memory I have […]
The Coconut Cake Fiasco
Every weekend is a baking adventure in our house. Katie, my girlfriend, must have been a baker in another life. She has no formal training in making sweets or bread, but manages to produce the tastiest baked goods every time. She makes amazing cheesecake and pumpkin pie (out of real pumpkin, not the store bought kind in […]
APICIUS WINE STUDENT BLOGS WINE!
Francesco Vigorito is a passionate student of wine and food at the Apicius International School of hospitality. Having grown up in an Italian family in New Jersey, food and wine have been an integral part of his life since childhood. He started to become really interested in wine when he tasted one of Italy’s best […]
PIZZACHAT
We have all been there (at least I admit I have). It is late in the afternoon, you probably didn’t have much of a lunch, and now your body begins to slowly but surely indicate that it yearns for more fuel than the lousy coffee you dumped into it a few hours ago. You are […]
I am fan of food…
I am no wine expert. I am fan of food, a gastronome if you will. I enjoy refined cuisine just as much as anyone who lavishly peppers a conversation with pretentiously mispronounced wine names that nobody wholeheartedly knows or cares about. I also take pleasure in conversing with those who love to tell you about […]
Our very first issue!
Welcome to CiboChat, the food blog of the APICIUS Food Communications Department! Students and faculty will be contributing their views and insights on everything related to food, travel, gastronomy, and culinary culture in Florence, Italy, and beyond. To check out our program and APICIUS visit www.apicius.it Lampredotto: The Other, Other White Meat By Nathan Scott […]